DOGE Workforce Center for Government Contracting

The Elon Musk-backed group is calling the shots even after President Trump’s edict that they let individual agencies take the lead.

These Agriculture Department employees must be allowed back to their jobs for 45 days, as the Office of Special Counsel continues to investigate the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired, promoted or transferred federal employees.

A leaked memo released Tuesday called for VA to slash its workforce to 2019 levels that were in place before millions of veterans became newly eligible for care.

Thousands of employees were already let go as of Thursday, a number that is expected to skyrocket in the coming days.

U.S. District Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. found that unions must first adjudicate their claims before the Merit Systems Protection Board or Federal Labor Relations Authority before suing in court.

Going forward, agencies are told to prioritize low performing probationers for firing. Some have already taken a different approach.

Susan Tsui Grundmann’s term at the agency that oversees federal sector labor disputes was not set to end until July.

The order tasks agencies to work in conjunction with Elon Musk’s DOGE to dramatically scale back government capacity.

The Democratic member was three years into a seven-year term on the three-member panel.

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